There are times in life when the most comfortable thing is to do nothing at all. Things happen to you and you just let them happen.

If you forgive people enough you belong to them, and they to you, whether either person likes it or not squatter's rights of the heart.

Surely there comes a time when counting the cost and paying the price aren't things to think about any more. All that matters is value - the ultimate value of what one does.

Is there not too much tension in the world at present, and might it not be better if more people were slackers?

if we have not found the heaven within,we have not found the heaven without

The right mixture of caring and not caring - I suppose that's what love is.

People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little.

There's only one thing more important... and that is, after you've done what you set out to do, to feel that it's been worth doing.

Laziness in doing stupid things can be a great virtue.

And I believe that the Binomial Theorem and a Bach Fugue are, in the long run, more important than all the battles of history.

We believe that to govern perfectly it is necessary to avoid governing too much.

History, writing, infect after a time a man's sense of himself...

The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse.

A man from the wood. A stranger from afar. He will break the curse by a hundred kisses...

When your heart is broken, when your heart has cracks in it, it lets the light in.

Because you are beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence

Surfing's one of the few sports that you look ahead to see what's behind.

'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.

Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses.

When it looks impossible and you are ready to quit, victory is near!

Those who believe in God because their experience of life and the facts of nature prove his existence must have led sheltered lives and closed their hearts to the voice of their brothers' blood.